Tag: cruises

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 20:50 UTC

  Uruguay’s official cruise season begins November 13; 197 calls anticipated

  

  Next November 13 the Holland America Line “Veendam” will be calling in Montevideo with 1.400 passengers signalling the official beginning of the cruise season in Uruguay expected to extend until April 4.

• Friday, October 15th 2010 - 22:09 UTC

  Cruise tourist numbers revised up by one third

  

  TOURISM in the Falklands is looking up, with visitor projections far higher than anticipated just three months ago.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 00:11 UTC

  Buenos Aires brand new exclusive terminal expects 140 cruise calls this season

  

  An estimated 140 cruise vessels will be calling in Buenos Aires this coming 2010/2011 season and on arrival visitors will be greeted at a refurbished terminal which should be ready for inauguration in December.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 03:12 UTC

  Stowaway owl in the world’s largest cruise vessel returned to its habitat

  

  Florida State wildlife officials were called to the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, to deal with a little stowaway – a burrowing owl.

• Friday, September 17th 2010 - 03:45 UTC

  Uruguay’s “life quality” tourism attracted 1.5 million in eight months

  

  The numbers of tourists arriving in Uruguay during the first eight months of 2010, compared to the same period a year ago, increased 13% and revenue jumped 20.2% according to the latest figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Tourism Hector Lescano.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 10:59 UTC

  Number of tour ships visiting South Georgia to fall for the second year running

  

  The number of tour ships planning to visit South Georgia in the coming summer looks set to fall for the second year in a row, according to a report in the August edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 19:28 UTC

  Alarm in Ushuaia: cruise calls are forecasted to drop 20% this season

  

  Tierra del Fuego province, in the extreme south of Argentina, and its capital Ushuaia is anticipating a 20% fall in the cruise business this coming season 2009/10 compared to 2008/09 according to the president of the regional tourism institute.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 16:30 UTC

  Chile Looks to Relax Casino Laws to Cater Cruise Ship Tourism

  

  The Ministry of the Economy is planning to send a bill to Chile’s Congress that would allow cruise ships to operate their casinos while in Chilean waters. This would repeal a section of the 2005 Casinos Act that requires all cruise ships to shut down their casinos when they pass within 13.8 miles of Chile's shoreline.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 03:22 UTC

  Punta Arenas on the move to recover cruise industry lost activity

  

  The business community in Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile has begun to campaign to ensure the cruise industry does not abandon the city and is asking authorities for a radical change in the costs policy, which seems one of the main causes for the current situation.

• Sunday, August 8th 2010 - 07:23 UTC

  Punta Arenas anticipates drastic 33% fall in cruise visitors this season

  

  Less than a month for the beginning of the official cruise season 2010/11, prospects for Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile are not at all encouraging with an anticipated activity contraction of 33% over last year, according to the Empresa Portuaria Austral, EPA, which manages local port activities.